A Miscellaneous Medievalist. Essays in Memory of Margaret Wade Labarge. Florilegium

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1 A Miscellaneous Medievalist Essays in Memory of Margaret Wade Labarge Florilegium Volume

2 A Miscellaneous Medievalist

3 Margaret Wade Labarge (Photo courtesy of Charles Labarge)

4 A Miscellaneous Medievalist Essays in Memory of Margaret Wade Labarge Edited by Jacqueline Murray and A. E. Christa Canitz Florilegium Volume 28 (2011) Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes

5 Editorial Board Frank Coulson (Ohio State) Paul Dutton (Simon Fraser) Simon Gaunt (King s College London) DeLloyd J. Guth (Manitoba) Brenda Hosington (Montréal/Warwick) Cynthia J. Neville (Dalhousie) A. G. Rigg (Toronto) Elizabeth Edwards (President, CSM/SCM) Markus Stock (Toronto) Andrew Taylor (Ottawa) David Williams (McGill) Editor A. E. Christa Canitz (New Brunswick) Co-editor Papers in French Carol J. Harvey (Winnipeg) Editorial Assistants Patricia Robinson, Leta Waugh, and Sarah McRae Power (New Brunswick) Florilegium, an annual publication devoted to the study of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, is the official journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes. Submissions from non-members anywhere in the world are also invited. Subscription rate for individuals: $35 per volume in Canadian funds (within Canada only) or in US dollars (for mailings outside Canada); institutional rate: $35 per volume. Correspondence regarding subscriptions should be addressed to Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3C5; Manuscripts for consideration should be submitted electronically to the Editor at <Canitz@unb.ca>. Manuscripts may also be sent in triplicate to Dr. A. E. Christa Canitz, Editor, Florilegium, Department of English, University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3. The contents of Florilegium are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale, the International Medieval Bibliography, the MLA Bibliography and Directory of Periodicals, the Online Chaucer Bibliography, and the ITER Bibliography. Florilegium is a member of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals. Florilegium gratefully acknowledges publication assistance generously provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by the University of New Brunswick. Cover art by Kathryn Finter, Ottawa, Ontario Florilegium. All rights reserved. ISSN

6 Contents / Table des matières Volume 28 (2011) Introduction Jacqueline Murray... Independent Women Scholars Write (Women s) Medieval History Susan Mosher Stuard... Sadly and with a Bitter Heart : What the Caesarean Section Meant in the Middle Ages Steven Bednarski and Andrée Courtemanche... Medicine on Trial: Regulating the Health Professions in Later Medieval England Sara M. Butler... Medieval Widowhood and Textual Guidance: The Corpus Revisions of Ancrene Wisse and the de Braose Anchoresses Catherine Innes-Parker Catherine la bourgeoise et la veuve anonyme d Orléans. Des femmes chez le notaire en 1437 Kouky Fianu... Impatient Griseldas: Women and the Perpetration of Violence in Sixteenth-Century Glasgow Elizabeth Ewan... The Slaying of Sir William Pennington: Legal Narrative and the Late Medieval English Archive Shannon McSheffrey A Bibliography of Published Works by Margaret Wade Labarge... The Contributors / Les contributeurs

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